Alexandra Erin is a blogger, poet, satirist, and author. Since 2007, they have used micropatronage to pay their bills and keep themselves and their stories alive. Alexandra Erin is a dyed-in-the-wool old-school fantasy fan. They grew up on a steady diet of things like The Legend of Zelda, Dungeons & Dragons, The Chronicles of Narnia, and the works of Ursula Le Guin and Madeleine L’Engle. Alexandra Erin is also a trans woman, though, and so they come into these worlds from a very different place than a lot of the people who have been presented as the default fantasy fan does. They come into them looking for different things. These facts can’t help but be reflected in the stories Alexandra Erin writes, or in the non-fiction writing they do on their blog, Twitter, and occasionally on other social media. They use patronage to write because it lets them tell the story they want to tell in the space and at the pace they are able to tell it. This means they don’t have to constrain their ideas to fit between the covers of a book or within the expectations of marketeers. This allows them freedom to experiment. Of course, some experiments work out better than others, but that’s the nature of experimentation.
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